School Counsellor - Al Ghad Charter School
Main Responsibilities:
- Help students enhance personal, social, and academic growth.
- Monitor the progress of individual students.
- Make contact with parents to discuss student behavior.
- Take steps to prevent bullying and support victims of bullying.
- Help students develop job search skills, such as resume writing and interviewing techniques.
- Help students understand and deal with social, behavior, and personal problems.
- Emphasize preventive and developmental counseling to provide students with life skills needed to deal with problems before they worsen and to enhance students’ personal, social, and academic growth.
- Provide special services such as conflict resolution classes; identify cases of domestic abuse and other family problems that can affect a student’s development
Group Counselling:
- Identifies areas that would be appropriate for intervention in the form of group counseling and regularly forms and leads appropriate groups.
- Utilizes both large (classroom) groups and small groups to make appropriate academic and behavioral interventions.
Career Counselling:
- Coordinates with the Counsellors regarding career options for students and provides appropriate information to students regarding careers.
- Assists the counselors in providing students with information for career exploration and selection to assist them in making appropriate academic course selections relating to their interests.
- Maintains an appropriate library/database relating to various careers for students to utilize in their career explorations.
Personal Counselling:
- Works with individual students and groups of students regarding appropriate social development issues.
- Maintains an awareness of cultural influences regarding the social development of adolescents.
- Monitors students who may be at risk regarding social issues and makes appropriate referrals for interventions outside of school in consultation with parents.
Applications for this position will be received directly by the school and will not be reviewed by Teach Away's Placement Coordinators.
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| Location | Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates |
| Start Date | September 2023 |
| Eligible Candidates | University Graduate, College/University Faculty |
| Number of Vacancies | 1 |
Job Benefits
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Qualifications and Requirements
| Required Certificates | TESL/TEFL Certificate Other Certification |
| Education Required | Master |
| Major | Social Worker & Counselling |
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